Samuel Beckett and Technology / / Galina Kiryushina, Einat Adar, Mark Nixon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
• VerfasserIn: Kiryushina, Galina,; Adar, Einat ,; Nixon, Mark,
• MitwirkendeR: Adar, Einat,; Asmus, Walter,; Beloborodova, Olga,; Bignell, Jonathan,; Bird, Dúnlaith,; Borg, Ruben,; D’Arcy, Michael,; Hulle, Dirk Van,; Jeffery, Lucy,; Johnson, Nicholas,; Kiryushina, Galina,; Mori, Naoya,; Nixon, Mark,; Thobois, Céline,; Thoelen, Thomas,; Verhulst, Pim,; Weller, Shane,; Whelan, Feargal,; Zilliacus, Clas,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations

Explores Beckett’s engagement with various technologies throughout his artistic careerApproaches the topic of technology from multiple perspectives previously unexplored in Beckett criticismIntervenes in current debates within Beckett Studies and related fields of literary and cultural criticism by...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction ‘Up to the neck in technical muck’: The Enduring Success of Beckett’s Technological Failures
• Part I Mechanical and Electrical Technologies
• Chapter 1 The Unmaking of Homo Faber: Beckett and the Exhaustion of Technē
• Chapter 2 The Permanent Way: Movement and Stasis in Beckett’s Railways
• Chapter 3 ‘with the mechanics of which I am unfamiliar’: The Strangeness of Technology in Beckett
• Chapter 4 Beckett and La Mettrie: From Man a Machine to Techno-Human Being
• Chapter 5 Monadic Clocks in Samuel Beckett’s Quad: Decomposing the ‘dramatized taboo’
• Part II Media Technologies and Intermediality
• Chapter 6 Beckett’s Technography: Traces of Radio in the Later Prose
• Chapter 7 Beckett’s Words and Music ‘or some other trouble’: Vaguening on the Airwaves
• Chapter 8 ‘a medium for fleas’: Beckett, Mitrani and 1950s–1960s French Television Drama
• Chapter 9 Beckett’s Multimedial Authorship: Language of Technology in the Genesis of Play and Film
• Chapter 10 Beckett and Television: Anachronism as Innovation
• Chapter 11 Making and Remaking Samuel Beckett’s What Where
• Part III Ideas of Technology
• Chapter 12 Portals of Invention: A ‘techno-logical’ Reading of the Prometheus Figure in Beckett’s The Unnamable
• Chapter 13 Technology and the Naive Artist: Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape
• Chapter 14 Beckett’s Invisible Matter: Echo, Technology and Posthuman Affect
• Chapter 15 Digital Poetics and Digital Hermeneutics in Beckett Studies: Toward a Manuscript Chronology
• Coda Viral Beckett
• Index